Part one of term paper
was an Italian painter and a master of the Sienese school. He was active during the 13th and the 14th centuries and is thought of to be a pupil of Duccio. It is known he died August 4, 1344 in Avignon. “If we are to believe Vasari, who tells us that on Simone's tomb there was an epitaph stating that he had died at the age of sixty, then th ...

Part two of term paper
... of his own to be recognized and remembered(Kren). “He developed the use of outline for the sake of linear rhythm” and later incorporated a gothic spirituality in his work (Kren). The Maesta, one of Simone’s first commissioned works for the Palazzo Pubblico’s Council Chamber in Siena, successfully solved the techniques for indicating three-dimensional space. “ Simone unites the composition through the subtle relation of interweaving diagonals, and diagonally directed curves; these are ...